Mini

2019 will be a year to celebrate the MINI reaching 60 years old. The hugely iconic small car has survived in part due a very successful BMW reboot in 2001. While small city cars are all the rage now, the MINI, along with the Fiat 500, surely paved the way …

Mini isn’t usually a brand that specifically targets fleets and company car drivers. Quirky fun-seeking millennials, yes, but mile-munching business users? Not particularly. However, that has changed with the latest trim to be added to the Clubman range. Starting from £19,995, the Clubman City has been priced to make the …

Hallelujah, winter is finally over! With that late frosty blast in March, we thought winter would never end. Thankfully, spring has without a doubt arrived, and anyone with a convertible will most certainly have indulged in some open-air motoring this week. But there’s the chance that you drive one of those …

There have been some fine looking versions of the MINI since 1959 when it first appeared, but very few have gone quite as extreme as the John Cooper Works MINI Buggy which affectionately tips its cap to the beach buggy fad of the sixties and seventies. This is designed to …

‘They don’t make them like they used to’. It’s a phrase we hear often in 2017, especially in the automotive world, and when it comes to the Mini, it’s very true. The current third-generation Mini Hatch is worlds away from the 1969 original that continues to conjure much romantic sentiment …

The new MINI concept has taken a few people by surprise, as the GP Concept has appeared not at the end of the lifespan of a MINI type, but right now. Previously we have seen a Works GP in 2006 and then again in 2012 at the end of each …

I recently write about the much anticipated all electric MINI, due to go into production in 2019. Now we can reveal some fine images; meet the MINI Electric Concept – and as predicted, this will indeed be revealed at the forthcoming 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show from 16-24 September (there are …

“What business has choccy got doing on a car website?” you may well question. “Plenty”, we would argue. Much like cars, chocolate comes in all shapes and sizes, colours and flavours. As with the auto industry, the chocolate business is made up of hundreds – if not thousands – of …

It didn’t take long after cars were invented for adrenaline junkies to want to start doing crazy things with them, just for the fun of it. There’s no record of exactly when the first ever car stunt was performed, but it no doubt evolved out of the jumping-on-and-off-trains stunts you …

The idea of the drive-in movie is deeply embedded within US culture and has been romanticised so successfully by Hollywood over the decades that we Brits have often looked upon it with envy. The truth is, we’ve never been particularly well set-up to translate the format over the pond in …